The apostolic nuncio to the Court of St James’s, Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, celebrated an historic Mass in Canterbury ...

An elbow bone fragment believed to have come from St Thomas Becket is carried into Canterbury Cathedral, 845 years after he was murdered there.

A shine to St Thomas Becket who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 850 years ago has been reconstructed using CGI. The memorial was built in Trinity Chapel but was destroyed during the ...

His shrine in the Canterbury Cathedral was for centuries one of the most popular pilgrimage destinations in ... Thomas Becket born. 1170. ... The pope forced Henry to do penance at Becket's tomb, ...

You get off the coach from London in Canterbury’s modest little bus station, trot down Gravel Walk past a parking lot and come face to face with the Marlowe Arcade. The Marlowe Arcade? As in … ...

The pilgrimage to Thomas Becket’s tomb became so well known that Geoffrey Chaucer used it as the background to “The Canterbury Tales.” Becket’s shrine was destroyed in 1538, on the orders ...

St. Thomas Becket (1118-1170) is well-known for his martyrdom in Canterbury Cathedral, defending religious liberty in England from the designs of his former friend, King Henry II Plantagenet.